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Mount Pisgah, or, A prospect of heaven being an exposition on the fourth chapter…Movnt Pisgah, or, A prospect of heaven being an exposition on the fourth chapter…
Mount Pisgah, or, A prospect of heaven being an exposition on the fourth chapter of the first epistle of St. Paul to the Thessalonians, from the 13th verse, to the end of the chapter, divided into three parts / by Tho. Case ...Movnt Pisgah, or, A prospect of heaven being an exposition on the fourth chapter of the first epistle of St. Paul to the Thessalonians, from the 13th verse, to the end of the chapter, divided into three parts / by Tho. Case ...
London: printed by Thomas Milbourn for Dorman Newman, 1670
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Now this is certain, what hath been may be, what some of the Saints have attained, and not only by special prerogative, others may attain also, provided they be not slothful, 1but followers of them, who through faith and patience inherit the promises. Thus heaven may be made sure.
- 1Heb. 6.11. curn. 12.
But on the other side, 1earth cannot.
- 1The world nor any part of it can be made sure.
1. It is not all the ensuring Offices in the world, nor all the Law or Lawyers in Westminster-hall, that can make an undefeazable entail to secure an inheritance upon the third or second generation; not only in respect of the brevity and uncertainty of mans life, the great mutability in the Creature, the wiles and frauds of men who are cunning to deceive, but even in regard of the methods and intricacies of the Law it self; 1hence the Apostle calls all sublunary possessions uncertain riches, to which he opposeth the living God: God only is immortal, not mutable; all ⟨p. 113⟩the things in the world which men make their riches, are uncertain, heaven only by a true Copernicisme is fixed, the earth moveable and unstable.